Indian history
The Churchill Paradox
Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future
The Passion of Pazhassi Raja
An 18th century Kerala king starred in the longest war waged against British forces in the subcontinent
Return to Jallianwala Bagh
A novelist comes to the conclusion that the Amritsar massacre was not a discrete event
Salman Rushdie Comes Home
Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East
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